Simmered
Privacy Policy
Effective November 2, 2026
In short
- We collect what’s needed to sign you in and make your recipes: your Apple sign-in details, what you add to make a recipe, your library, meal plan, shopping list and settings, and your subscription status.
- What you add to import a recipe is processed with Google Gemini to create it. A recipe you write yourself isn’t.
- Subscriptions are paid through Apple. We don’t receive your payment details.
- Simmered has no ads of its own, and we don’t sell your information or track you across other apps. Recipe websites you open in the app may show their own ads.
- You can delete your account in the app.
1. About Simmered
Simmered is an iPhone app by Wave Labs LLC (“we”, “us”) that turns links to cooking videos and photos, recipe pages on websites, and recipe text you paste, into written recipes, lets you write your own, and lets you plan your week and keep a shopping list. This policy explains what we collect, why, who receives it, how long we keep it and how you can delete it.
Simmered is available only in the United States, to people 18 and older, and isn’t directed at children. If we determine that an account belongs to someone under 18, we will close and delete it.
2. Information we collect
We get information from you, from Apple, from TikTok and Instagram when you add links from them, and from your phone when you add a recipe page:
- From Apple, when you sign in: your email address (or a Hide My Email address), your name if you choose to share it, and an identifier for your account.
- What you add: the links you add, whether you paste them or share them to Simmered, including links to recipe pages, and recipe text you paste (see section 3).
- Your library and settings: the recipes you save, your edits, favorites and categories, your private recipes (recipes you add from text you paste or from a website, or write yourself, which only you can see), and settings such as the units you choose for recipe amounts and the day your week starts on.
- Your meal plan and shopping list: the recipes you plan for each day and how many servings, and the items on your shopping list, whether you type them or add them from a recipe (including that recipe’s title), and which items you’ve checked off and when.
- From TikTok and Instagram, when you add a link from them: the post’s public content and details, such as its video, photos, caption and creator, to make the recipe.
- From a recipe page, when you add one: your phone opens the page and sends us the recipe on it, with the website’s name, the author when known, and the page’s address. The rest of the page isn’t sent to us.
- Subscription information from Apple: your plan, whether it’s a free trial, when it renews or ends, and any refund. We don’t receive your payment details.
- Activity and technical information: when you use Simmered, the imports you’ve made and whether they worked, how many you’ve made this month, whether we’ve paused your imports under our Terms of Use, and technical information for security and troubleshooting, which can include the links you add.
Age check. Where the law requires an age check, the app asks Apple for your age range the first time you open it and before you sign in. The answer stays on your device. Simmered doesn’t receive or store your age, your age range, or the result of the check.
The app keeps your library list, recent recipes, meal plan and shopping list on your phone, so you can see them offline, and you can change your shopping list offline too. Shopping list changes that haven’t been sent stay on your phone even if you sign out. When you sign back in to the same account, they’re sent once a connection is available. Unsent changes are removed when Simmered next opens after a period without use. Links you share to Simmered stay on your phone until they’re sent or you dismiss them, and are removed when you sign out. If you share while signed out, nothing is kept or sent.
Recipe pages in the app. Simmered may open a recipe page in the app, where you can sign in to the website with your own account. The page is the website’s own: the website, and other companies on it such as its advertisers, may collect information about you while it’s open, under their own privacy policies. Your sign-in, and anything else the website stores in the app, stays on your phone, isn’t sent to us, and is discarded when you close the page. What the website itself collects stays with the website, under its own privacy policy.
What we don’t collect.
- Simmered doesn’t ask for access to your location, contacts, photo library, camera or microphone.
- It has no advertising or analytics tools of its own, and doesn’t track you across other apps or websites. A recipe page you open in the app is the website’s own, with its own ads and tools.
- We don’t sell your information or share it for advertising.
3. How recipes are made
To make a recipe from a link, we use the post’s public content, such as its video, photos, caption and the creator’s own sound. Copies of the video, photos and sound are deleted after processing, or shortly after if processing is interrupted. The post’s caption, title and creator stay with your import request (see section 6), and the recipe keeps the creator’s name to credit them.
Recipe pages. We send Google Gemini the recipe your phone read from the page, to write it up. We don’t send it the page’s address or anything else from the page. The recipe is private to you and credits the website, with a link to the page.
Text you paste is sent to Google Gemini to make your recipe, including any personal details in it, so leave those out. We delete the text after processing, or shortly after if processing is interrupted. The recipe made from it is saved in your library and isn’t shown to other Simmered users.
A recipe you write yourself isn’t sent to Google Gemini. Like all your private recipes, it isn’t shown to other Simmered users.
Google Gemini. Simmered uses Google Gemini, through Google Cloud, to make recipes.
- What we send: what’s needed to make the recipe: the link or its content, such as the video, photos, sound and caption, the recipe from a recipe page, or the text you paste, and our instructions.
- What we don’t send: your Simmered account details, name or email, except anything that’s in what you add. Your meal plan and shopping list aren’t sent to Google.
- No training: under Google Cloud’s terms, Google doesn’t use what we send it to train its AI models.
- What Google keeps: if Google’s safety systems flag a request as possible misuse, Google may keep it for up to 90 days to investigate, and authorized Google staff may review it.
Shared recipes. Everyone who adds the same TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link gets the same recipe, and these recipes don’t contain your name or account information.
4. How we use information
We use information to:
- sign you in;
- create recipes, and keep your library, meal plan and shopping list across your devices;
- provide your subscription and apply its monthly limit;
- keep Simmered secure and working;
- answer support emails;
- meet legal obligations.
We don’t sell it, use it for advertising or advertising profiles, or use it to train AI models.
5. Who receives information
Service providers we use. These process information for us, to run Simmered:
- Google Cloud, which runs Gemini for us, to make recipes, as described above.
- Hosting and email providers, which run our servers, database and website, and our support email.
Some of these providers may also use information to run and improve their own services, such as filtering spam. They must provide protections for it consistent with this policy and applicable requirements.
Services you choose, or that your phone contacts. These receive information when you add a link, when the app shows a recipe’s picture, or when you sign in or subscribe. Each handles it under its own privacy policy, not ours, and may collect information about you across other sites and apps:
- TikTok and Instagram, when you add a link from them, receive a request for that post. A TikTok short link you add can identify who shared it, and TikTok receives it.
- TikTok and YouTube, when the app shows a recipe’s picture from them: your phone loads it from that platform, which can see your IP address and basic information about your device.
- Recipe websites, and other companies on their pages, when your phone opens one of their pages: the website can see your IP address and basic information about your device, and receives anything you type or sign in with there.
- Apple, for Sign in with Apple, the age check, the App Store and subscription payments. When you subscribe, the app gives Apple an identifier for your Simmered account, so we know which account a purchase belongs to.
Opening a recipe’s original takes you to TikTok, Instagram, YouTube or the recipe’s website. We may also disclose information when the law requires it.
Security. We take reasonable steps to protect your information. No service can promise complete security.
6. How long we keep information
| Information | How long |
|---|---|
| Account information and subscription records | Until you delete your account |
| Your settings | Until you change them or delete your account |
| Your library: saved recipes, edits, categories, favorites and your private recipes | Until you remove them or delete your account |
| Your meal plan | About three weeks after you last change it. Days older than last week are removed whenever you change your plan. |
| Your shopping list | Until you remove items or delete your account. Checked items stop appearing 7 days after you check them off, but remain stored until you next change your list or delete your account. |
| Links you add and your import requests | For a limited time after each request finishes, even if you remove the recipe |
| Text you paste, the recipe from a recipe page, and copies made to create a recipe | Deleted after processing, or shortly after if processing is interrupted |
| What websites keep in the app while their page is open, such as your sign-in | On your phone only, until you close the page |
| Sign-in sessions | Until they expire, or sooner if you sign out or delete your account |
| Usage-limit records | Until shortly after the month ends |
| Server logs, and records needed to complete an account deletion | For a limited time, then deleted automatically |
| Content Google’s safety systems flag | Up to 90 days, kept by Google |
| Backups of our database | Up to 8 days, then deleted automatically |
| Emails you send to support | Up to 18 months |
| Our record of each copyright takedown, including the account it concerned when the material came from that account | As long as we need it to apply our repeat-infringer policy |
We keep a daily backup of our database for up to 8 days, stored with our hosting and database providers, so information you delete can remain in a backup until then. If we ever restore a backup, accounts deleted since it was made are deleted again.
7. Deleting your information
- Removing a recipe from your library deletes your save and your changes to it. A recipe made from a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link stays available to other people who have it. A private recipe is deleted too. Either way, the recipe comes off your meal plan, and items you added from it stay on your shopping list until you remove them.
- Deleting your account. In the app, tap You, then Delete account. A new account that hasn’t subscribed yet finds Delete account on the subscription screen instead. This deletes your account information and settings, your library (with your edits, categories and your private recipes), your meal plan and shopping list, your import requests, and your usage and subscription records, and it ends all your sign-in sessions. Deleting your account doesn’t cancel a subscription: billing continues through Apple until you cancel it in your Apple Account’s subscription settings, so cancel it first. Server logs, the records needed to complete the deletion, and backups of our database are kept as listed in section 6. If you confirm the deletion with Apple, we use what Apple provides only to end Simmered’s Sign in with Apple access, and delete it within days. See Delete your account.
- Sign in with Apple.
- Apple may notify us about changes to your Sign in with Apple account.
- Removing Simmered from Sign in with Apple doesn’t delete your Simmered account.
- If Apple tells us that your Apple Account is being deleted, we delete the Simmered account linked to it, even if you later cancel your Apple Account deletion.
- If the same notice reaches us again within 30 days, it can’t affect a different account, including a new Simmered account you create afterwards.
- Accounts we close. We also close and delete an account we terminate under our Terms of Use, as described there.
8. Your choices
- You can remove recipes or delete your account in the app at any time, and sign out from the You tab once your account is set up.
- If you use Hide My Email, Apple gives us a relay address instead of your real email address.
- We don’t track you across other apps or websites, so Do Not Track signals don’t change anything we do. Recipe websites you open in the app decide for themselves how they respond to them.
- For questions about your information, email support@wave-labs.app.
9. Changes to this policy
When we change this policy, we’ll post the new version here and update the effective date.
10. Contact
Wave Labs LLC · support@wave-labs.app